Tag: language teaching
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Extending English Language Teaching Theory
Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, the book I am editing, invites readers to rethink how languages are taught. These four chapters that have just been included in the collection map out the theory of langauge education, and show some ways in which it can be extended.
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Multilingual Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Opportunities and Obstacles (Call for papers)
Bilingual education and (CLIL) are often associated with relatively well-resourced teaching contexts. However, an upcoming book edited by Elizabeth Erling and John Clegg aims to challenge this perception, and the editors of the book are keen to receive your proposals exploring aspects of multilingual education in low-resource settings.
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Working with refugee-background learners
I recently wrote about a project (Critical Skills for Life and Work) we did at the University of Graz, which aimed to help people with a refugee or migrant background with their professional integration. One of the things I did, as part of my involvement in the project, was to familiarise myself with existing literature…
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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Time in Language Learning and Teaching
This is a summary of the articles that make up the Special Issue on Time in Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching.
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Tissue rejection in language education
This post discusses what might happen when language teaching methods that are known to be effective in one context are transplanted into a different educational setting.
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Call for Papers: NATESOL 2015
The Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NATESOL) is a Manchester-based teacher’s association that has been supporting the professional development of English Language Teachers since 1984. They hold several events throughout the year, including an annual conference. This year’s conference, will be be held on Saturday 20th June 2015 at Salford City College, and…
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Teaching English to Young Learners: Some insights from the literature
In view of the increasing interest in Teaching English to Young Learners worldwide, it’s time to look at what the literature on Second Language Acquisition can tell us.
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Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality & Emancipation
Update (October 2017) The volume advertised in this post has now been published in the Language and Social Life series of de Gruyter Mouton. The title of the volume has been updated to Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. The volume consists of 12 chapters which greatly enrich the critical discourse in language education.